Working Harbor Committee win an award for perpetuating this event and calling it race AND competition. And at the expense of making this post almost as long as some of those cinema and music award shows, I’d like to add some aditional awards . . .

Next we have many line handling awards. First up, “best right-hand follow through form” to Quantico Creek,

“best send the whole coil at once” to Sea Wolf,

“best hand and leg follow through form” also to Sea Wolf,

“best mascot with cute purple antennae” also to Sea Wolf . . . might this BE THE sea WOLF?

“biggest line-thrower cheering section” Maurania III,

“best facial expression” to Susan Miller,

“best overall posture award” Ross Sea,

and now a break from line-throwing awards . . . best photographer-aloft . . . Shipshooter on Ross Sea.

“best ‘make-that-line-walk'” . . . also Ross Sea,

“most earnest line thrower expression” . . . Catherine C Miller,

“best ‘looks-like-that-was-overhand'” Freddie K Miller,

“best ‘over-the-bollard-and . . .

…put-turns-on-the-quarterbitt'” Pegasus,

“best and longest lariat twirling followed by the

longest throw” Growler. Note for next year . . . the Growler crew might decide to dress as rodeo folk, given that the 30-second lasso-demonstration prompted a comment from some unnamed person behind me . . . “Next year for Growler we should replace that bollard with a fiberglass cow.” Great showmanship!!